Urban sustainability assessment tools: A review

Kaur, Harsimran; Garg, Pooja

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.11.009

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“…Facing future work and aiming to increase the usability of UPSUF, one of the potential directions of this work will be to add approved certifications into the integrated evaluation toolkit. However, these certifications sometimes present a series of limitations and need a comprehensive revision (see Kaur and Garg, 2019). There are already some sources in the literature that looked for a revised method, with the Comprehensive Assessment Method for Sustainable Urban Development (CAMSUD; Ali-Toudert et al, 2020) being one of the most attractive ones.…”

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An Urban Planning Sustainability Framework: Systems Approach to Blue Green Urban Design

Puchol-Salort¹,

Reeuwijk²,

Mijic³

et al. 2022

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The climate emergency and population growth are challenging water security and sustainable urban design in cities worldwide. Sustainable urban development is crucial to minimise pressures on the natural environment and on existing urban infrastructure systems, including water, energy, and land. These pressures are particularly evident in London, which is considered highly vulnerable to water shortages and floods and where there has been a historical shortage of housing. However, the impacts of urban growth on environmental management and protection are complex and difficult to evaluate. In addition, there is a disconnection between the policy and decision-making processes as to what comprises a sustainable urban development project. Here we present a systems-based Urban Planning Sustainability Framework (UPSUF) that integrates sustainability evaluation, design solutions and planning system process. One of the features of this master planning framework is the spatial representation of the urban development in a Geographical Information System to create an operational link between design solutions and evaluation metrics. UPSUF moves from an initial baseline scenario to a sustainable urban development design, incorporating the requirements of governance and regulatory bodies, as well as those of the end-users. It evaluates the impact on the built and the natural environments through the concept of urban ecosystem services, and makes the This is a pre-print of manuscript submitted for peer-review at Sustainable Cities and Society journal 2 process for sustainable design more accurate and reliable. Ultimately, UPSUF has the potential to facilitate partnership and constructive dialogue between the public and the private sectors.

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An Urban Planning Sustainability Framework: Systems Approach to Blue Green Urban Design

Puchol-Salort¹,

Reeuwijk²,

Mijic³

et al. 2022

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“…In Poland, the production of biofuels for many years has been based on raw materials of agricultural origin, such as rapeseed oil and corn [77][78][79]. The trend consisting of basing the market of biofuels on raw food materials has been observed also in the European Union, the USA and Brazil [82][83][84][85][86][87]. However, as it has been pointed out by the European Parliament, it is necessary to increase the pace of development of biofuels from raw non-food materials and popularize electromobility in road transport [81].…”

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Selected Aspects of Biofuels Market and the Electromobility Development in Poland: Current Trends and Forecasting Changes

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This work presents basic information associated with markets of selected alternative fuels used in transport, such as methyl esters, conventional bioethanol and lignocellulosic bioethanol, and the market of electrical vehicles. Legal conditions, which stimulate development and regulate the mode of functioning of the liquid biofuel market until 2020 are discussed, based on provisions of EU directives. Data on biofuel production in Poland are presented, as well as biofuel consumption in the EU, the USA and Brazil in 2017. The most important conclusions of the proposal for a directive on the promotion of renewable energy sources in transport in EU member states in years 2021–2030 are discussed. The authors have also indicated the key legal and territorial conditions associated with the development of electromobility and present basic information on electric vehicles in Poland and Europe. The results of the research on the attractiveness of these sectors in 2018 are presented and compared with the results obtained in years 2007–2017. A score-based sector attractiveness method was used in the research.

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“…In general, various green building rating systems have been developed worldwide, which form the basis of sustainable building evaluation and certification. The most commonly used systems are Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) [10], Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) [11] and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen (DGNB) [12], which are the most frequently cited in Elsevier's Scopus database [13][14][15][16]. LEED [10] and BREEAM [11] are also the oldest [13,14], and DGNB [12] is the most frequently used in Europe [14].…”

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“…Zeinal and Huber [21] provided a general review and comparison of DGNB, LEED, and BREEAM, while Schwartz and Raslan [22] made comparisons between LEED and BREEAM for newly built residential buildings. In some cases, rating systems can also cover sustainable urban planning, as discussed by AlQahtany et al [23] and Kaur and Garg [14], where the latter provided a comprehensive review of the most widely used green building rating systems.…”

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A Methodological Framework for Sustainable Office Building Renovation Using Green Building Rating Systems and Cost-Benefit Analysis

2020

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Sustainable development is a priority for the future of our society. Sustainable development is of particular importance to the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry, both for new buildings and for the renovation of existing buildings. Great potential for sustainable development lies in the renovation of existing office buildings. This paper introduces a new framework for identifying the best set of renovation strategies for existing office buildings. The framework applies selected green building rating system criteria and cost-effective sustainable renovation solutions based on cost-benefit analysis (CBA), and thus provides a novelty in decision-making support for the sustainable renovation of office buildings at an early-stage. The framework covers all necessary steps and activities including data collection, determination of the required level of renovation, selection of the green building rating system, identification of impact categories and criteria, and final evaluation and decision-making using CBA. The framework can be used in conjunction with different systems and according to different regional characteristics. The applicability of the addressing procedure is shown through a case study of a comprehensive renovation of an office building in the city of Maribor.

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Urban sustainability assessment tools: A review

Cited by 221 publications

References 50 publications

An Urban Planning Sustainability Framework: Systems Approach to Blue Green Urban Design

An Urban Planning Sustainability Framework: Systems Approach to Blue Green Urban Design

Selected Aspects of Biofuels Market and the Electromobility Development in Poland: Current Trends and Forecasting Changes

A Methodological Framework for Sustainable Office Building Renovation Using Green Building Rating Systems and Cost-Benefit Analysis

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